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With Spiceworks 4.0 now released Spiceworks are working hard to get “The Voice of IT” together.
The Voice of IT will help companies like HP, Microsoft and Netgear get the feedback they want about there products.
With surveys, polls, questionnaires in the making you could be part of the next revolutionary product.
Spiceworks News will have the latest news as it gets released…
Ben.B has posted a update on the Exchange 2007 situation
The Spiceworks Exchange Health Widget has never fully supported Exchange 2007.
Once Microsoft releases the infrastructure for remotely querying Exchange information we will be able to add in the functionality seen with Exchange 2003 back into the Exchange Health Widget for Exchange 2007. This will be available with the release of powershell 2, which allows remote querying.
With the latest Exchange rollup Spiceworks loses all ability to communicate with the Exchange Health Widget (for Exchange 2007), and also will not show the Exchange tab in the Spiceworks Inventory.
NOTE: So far this does NOT affect Exchange 2007′s ability to communicate with Spiceworks with respect to email communication, this only affects inventorying aspects of Spiceworks. In fact, Exchange email functionality with 2007 has been significantly improved in Spiceworks 4.0.
Thanks Ben 
SWNews have found out some more news about a Spiceworks API…
Jay Hallberg VP of marketing and co-founder of Spiceworks has been reported to say: “We work with them to create self-contained applications they can plug into the Spiceworks interface to perform functions for users,”
Currently working with Microsoft, TrendMicro and CDW, Spiceworks 4.0 is said to include new app’s or plugins for things like a widget for Microsoft that lets IT managers manage their software licenses, LiveOffice archive management and CDW purchase management.
But Spiceworks may charge for these: “Hallberg says that Spiceworks is testing the program with four initial sponsors to glean best practices. Pricing varies and generally is part of larger marketing budgets, he says.”
More news as we get it
Spiceworks provides a free systems management, inventory, and helpdesk software application, Spiceworks IT Desktop, designed for network administrators working in small- to medium-sized businesses.
Spiceworks IT Desktop is used to inventory, monitor, manage and report on software and hardware assets. It also includes an integrated help desk system. Spiceworks runs on Microsoft Windows and discovers Windows, Unix, Linux and Mac OS X machines along with other IP-addressable devices such as routers, VOIP phones, printers, etc. Spiceworks is an advertisement-supported application and is written in Ruby on Rails.
Download cool reports and extend the power of Spiceworks. Did you write a neat report? Share IT with the community.
Spice up reports you like and show your appreciation.
Ever wanted or needed to know more about your network but not sure what you want to know about? Why not look at the reports other people have shared that they use within Spiceworks? You could even post your own report and get a cool badge for your profile.
Instead of spending hours trying to work out how to create reports used the Shared ones on Spiceworks, such as the Microsoft Product keys report made by _Brian_
It will show you all the machines with Microsoft applications installed on and the product keys relating to it. A great report to help you keep track of those annoying licenses.
What about trying to find the last login? The Last Login report will help you.
Which machines have SP3 installed? Find out with the SP3 report.
With over 350 reports their is bound to be something you want to know just didn’t know you wanted to know.
They are a like powering on a computer, if you have used Spiceworks reporting before just click install if not you need to hunt around the PC for the simple and very effective on switch.
Again like turning a PC on if you have created your own report then you should have seen the share button… Just click it, fill in a couple of details and BAM like magic it appears on Spiceworks for 300,000+ IT pros to use.
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